Thursday, January 19, 2017

Three from Uncle Albert

Lee and Uncle Albert at the General's
190th birthday, Berlin, 1997.
 Three from Uncle Albert  

[in his cups on the occasion of Robert E. Lee’s 210th birthday]*

Our assumption that the future will be unkind unless (dammit!) we do something about it, only irritates it, makes the future want to strike back at us.

We may name the days of the week what we want, but naming them is no guarantee they will come in the order we assign. This week, for example, Echtmittwoch preceded Dienstag.

Narcissism the philosophical system begins with the proposition, «Ich bin, ergo du bist nichts

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* The brackets indicate a stage direction.

01.19.17

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